Enterprise Architect (Cloud & Infrastructure)

ZealHire Inc.; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. in Houston, Texas, USA, seeks an Enterprise Architect (Cloud & Infrastructure) to translate business needs into scalable IT solutions across cloud and on‑premises platforms.

The role focuses on architecture design, standards compliance, and cross‑functional collaboration. You will mentor teams, evaluate technical options for vendor solutions, and drive planning for a small software portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Designs architecture to include software, hardware, and communications to support requirements and cross-functional interfaces
• Ensures systems are compliant with agency IT architectures and standards for integrations
• Evaluates workflows and develops corrective action

Job description

ZealHire. Houston, Texas, United States Contract Deadline: Oct 30, 2026

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This role is primarily onsite M-Th: in-office F: remote.

Interview: 2 rounds -- 1st via Teams and 2nd in-person / onsite required

REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Aura and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Knowledge or certification in TOGAF preferred

Summary

The main function of an Enterprise Architect (Cloud & Infrastructure) is to establish system information requirements using analysis of information in the development of enterprise-wide or large-scale information systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Designs architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
• Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for agency IT architectures, and profiles of standards as they apply to the implementation and specific to the solution for the platform, integration with other systems, and the external interfaces
• Ensures that the common operating environment is compliant. Evaluates analytically and systematically problems of work flows, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective action

Skills:

• Experience with broad technology delivery, including custom development using various development languages
• Experience with providing technical leadership, mentoring on software engineering design, development, and frameworks, analyzing alternatives, and presenting technical options to leads and clients
• Experience with driving technical planning and solutions for small software portfolio, including authoring or managing the development of software designs, managing vendor evaluations, and justifying technical recommendations
• Requires experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Aura and Amazon Web Services (AWS) preferred
• Knowledge or certification in TOGAF preferred

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MBA or other related advanced degree preferred
• 2-4 years experience required

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal